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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1936

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FRED PERRY HEADS WORLD'S TENNIS LIST FOR THIRD YEAR

ARSENAL'S FIRST WIN

OVER SCOTS

GLASGOW

RANGERS JUST

FAIL AT HIGHBURY

STIRRING STRUGGLE WITNESSED

London, September 24.

ARSENAL have at last won one of their games against Glasgow Rangers, gaining victory last evening by two goals to one. They deserved it, too, and the crowd of 35,000 enjoyed a stirring struggle.

The justifiable use of the phrase points most clearly to thei changing character of these so-called friendly games. They were started as exhibition affairs, giving English patrons a chance to see Scottish football at its best, and possibly of learning something new in ball control or tactics.

For a part of last evening's game this purpose was carried out. The Scots, playing deliberately and with the ball on the ground, carried out some delightful movements.

They scored

Bastin was ab-}

after 10 minutes, Kinnear shooting through to end a movement] in which practically all the forwards took part: sent from the Arsenal side when this goal was scored.

INTERPORTERS

FARE POORLY

During the first half the ef- forts of the Arsenal seemed to be concentrated on

showing

that they could be as clever as

AT THE H.K.C.C. their opponents, but a change

Need Rest After Northern Trip ANDERSON JOINING K.C.C.

(By “L & W.")

the

came over their play. They seemed to catch the desire for victory; started to play as they do in the competitive matches, and from that moment victory for them seemed certain.

Eleanor Dawson, left, of Piedmon, California, and Cissy Mad- deu, Boston, were the tallest and shortest in competition at the opening of the nineteenth National Girls' Tennis Championship Tournament on the courts of the Philadelphia Cricket Club last month

"VERDICTS"

Club Falter Before South China “B”

MANY JUNIOR UPSETS

"By "Referee").

RIFLES HOLD SOUTH CHINA "A" AT SOOKUNPOO Police Share Spoils With East Lancs.

CANNELL SECURES: “HAT- TRICK" FOR ROYAL NAVY

ANNUAL RANKING OF Police Soccer

LEADERS

SENORITA LIZANA'S BIG

ADVANCE

BRIAN GRANT SECURES EIGHTH

PLACE

(By A. WALLIS MYERS)

London, September 25.

BELOW is published, for the 19th successive year, the classification of the world's 10 play-

Player

ers of both sexes. The lists are founded on per- E. SALTER, the Police Re- sonal observation at official championships this D.

educated at St. John's

creation Club's Second full-back, year those at Wimbledon, Paris and Forest Division League soccer

land one of the coming soccer stars Hills, USA. and at the Davis Cup and Wight of the Colony, was born in London man Cup team matches. Account has also been and so taken of other matches at home and abroad where At school Salter took a keen in- players have been in competition under cham-terest in soccer and cricket, par ing at right-half in the former pionship conditions.

sport,-while he was a fairly good bowler

The lists are:

MEN

1 F. J. Perry (England).

G. Yon Craman (Germany). 3.1. D. Badge (U.S.A.).

A E. Quist (Australia). S. H. W. Austin (England).

Crawford (Australis). 7.W. I. Allison (USA).

8. B. H. Grant (USA). 9. H. Henkel (Germany).

10. V. R. McGrath' (Australia).

L

G

7.

WOMEN

Miss H. H. Jacobs' (U.S.A.). Mrs. Sperling (Germany), Miss D. E. Bound (England). Miss A. Marble (USA).

Mme Mathien (France). -

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Mille. J. Jedrzejowska (Poland), Miss K. Stammers (England).

8. Senorita A. Lirana (Chile).

Mr. Fabyan. (USA).

9.

10.

Miss G. Babcock (USA)

Classification of merit must always be difficult when neither

College, Hastings.

At the age of 18 ke migrated {to Australia and at Brisbane gave up soccer for riding. As there was not much opportunity, for keeping alive his interest in the Associa tion game, he concentrated fully. on cross country riding.

He joined the Hong Kong Police Force in 1934, and when the Police. formed their junior soccer team last year he at once returned to

the test nor the conditions by which it is governed is uniform his former love, where his displays

deci-

Official championships are conducted on the knock-out system; the have been marked by patches of draw must therefore play an important, and, sometimes, a brilliance.

He is also interested in swim- sive, part. Nor are all the championships played under similar conditions. Even at the same base the surface may vary from ming and is no mean cucist, day to day; players for planes remain as material as horse for

courses.

“THE FINEST EXAMPLE OF CRICKET"

INDIAN GIRL SWIMMER

To Swim English

Channel

First Time Tackling

The cricket match between

With first-time tackles the half- Interport team that had only just backs and full-backs refused to al- returned from Shanghai and a side low the Rangers to settle on the comprised of ex-interporters on the ball, and the forwards, cutting out

The appraiser must not therefore be influenced exclusively Club ground on Saturday, so far the frills, went straight for goal.

by results. He must judge relative form as much by the stan from being a close game an ex-A bombardment of the Rangers"

dard and trials of the challenge imposed as by the actual outcome The fourth week of local soccer pected, fizzled out into a one-sided goal was the outcome and six mini-

of the contest, and he must not ignore the fact that although affair with the ex-Interporters win-utes after the interval Davidson can aptly be described as one of

champions are vindicated by the obstacles they overcome, all are ning by a comfortable margin scored. A quarter of an hour later many upsets, the biggest of which

Three First Division. League exposed to the accident of the chase. When the strain of com-Plans The interporters were definitely Drake headed through from Milne's was the defeat of St. Joseph's at

petitions is unequal the judge must be more circuntspective. football matches were played yes- stale from the many days of cricket centre and the Rangers, playing the hands of Eastern, who secured they had just gone through and it just as whole-heartedly as their their first win in the premier terday, the most important af

F. J. Perry is at the top of League by the odd goal. would perhaps be a good thing for opponents, could not draw level.

which was the clash between the The .Club suffered some of them to give the game a

another Rifles and South Chinas "the men's list for the third successive year. He has not es- Even allowing for the absence of severe sethack, at the hands of which resulted in a drawn game, rest until next week-end

three or four regular players, the South China "B" at Caroline Hill, the teams sharing six goals at Caped defeat and has revealed

must and will have to show a consider-Soompoo. were conclusion from the match game

South China "A's" sensational betray as habit stales success, Tribute To All-India Cricket Tea Bengal, is arriving at Bombay to- Frank Pereira's bowling, E. R.be that the Rangers are not authel-able improvement if they are to re- Duckitt's felding and the Owen ently skilful to overcome strong tain their place near the top of collapse in the second half was the of relying more on defence than outstanding feature of the clash defiance; yet he has repeated Hughes-Sayer partnership which opponents. The art was in their the First Division. tabic.

after the Chinese had taken a three his feat of 1934 and won the realised 76 runs in just about as men, revealed often by Ventners

goals, lead in the opening period British and American cham- PRAY minutes: Pereira bowled taking the ball up to his forwards,

The absence of Fowler and Flem-through Tso Kwai-shing (2) and pionships in the same year. better than he had done for a long and in the cleverness of Kinnear,

The Chinese Each has now been taken three ing, the Club right-wing partner Fung King-cheong. time, and though he kept most of the best outside winger or

tremendous differ- halves were unable to stand up to times. them outside the off-stump, he did field. But the right wing was not ship, made a

No other player, in the annals send a few dead on the leg stump, up to the usual standard, and ence to the team, as it was from the bustling Rifles attack and

centre-forward. was this wing that the majority of goals came from Ferguson and of the game, except Tilden, has and very difficult they were to play Smith.

pre-Hartigan, while the former scored that record, and Tilden did not making generally over-powered by the openings were made in the too. Owen "Hughes was

the equaliser a few minutes before

win Wimbledon for three years" in them come up awkwardly, making amateur centre-half. Bernard Joy. vious two matches.

The result was sequence, playing through each. the final whistle. full use of his height, and he also

Third Fall Back

8 good indication of the run of the made them turn 'quite a bit.

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Features of the

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at

the

As they played in the match

is going to captain them again ball with safety, and making many this will be the ideal position for fine saves.

him

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+ Fowler's Absence

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Heralding His Return Yeung Shui-yick, the Chinese play.

Portagnese Lucky Recreio and the Athletic shared the spoils in their First Division (Continued on Page 3)

a disposition which all leaders

Perry And Tilden

I do not think Perry, for

all:

London, September 91-Writ ing over the name of “Cinb Czie ket," a correspondent - of the "Daily Herald" of to-day says:

As a lover of cricket, I feel. bound to express my unstinted admiration for the All-India tex, which has just drawn to its close a tour that will for ever live in my memory as the finest example of "cricket" it has been my. lot to experience.

In the face of successiya losses, which, it must be acknowledged. have a serious effect on the mor- ala of any side, they fought

-To the last their spisiman- 15ken, aminit han facing inge odds thrilled thousands of delighted

ALL INDIA RUGBY TOURNAMENT

Bombay, September 23.

Information has reached Bom- bay that Miss Bani Ghose, the well-known girl swimmer, of

morrow morning with her trainer Mr. Profulla Ghose, until recently endurance world champion of evinning.

It can be mentioned that Miss Ghose is coming to Bombay”, in an attempt to swim from Elephanta Caves to the Gateway of India.

It is understood that after this is accomplished Miss Ghose will attempt to swim across the Eng- lish Channel which is one of her ambitions. This attempt there- fore will give her practice for sea- swimming.

CRICKET TOUR CANCELLED Nawanagar Team For New Zealand

A. W. Hayward kept wicket, for the Rangers have not given up Olympic right-winger, heralded his Fast and lively soccer was seen the ex-Interporters and made quite the idez that the centre half can return to Incal soccer by scoring on the Kowloon ground, where the a good job of it, conceding only best serve his side as a third full-one of the two goals which account Police staged a revival; holding the his glittering access, is as yet 11 extras, five of which were leg-back Simpson was essentially sed for the Club's downfall. He is East Lacs. to s draw and shar-Tilden's equal as a master.

Those who differ may be re- head sad minded that for six years in suc- centre-forward, was byes and one no-ball. I hear he defender, and little fault could be still one of the fastest wingers in ing two goals. Moss, playing at will be keeping regularly for the found with the Rangers defence the Colony.

shoulders above the rest and the cession, in a field incomparably Cricket Club. this season, and if he as a whole, Dawson handling the

soldiers defence was given a har richer than Wimbledon's was at the time or since, Tilden was zinbesten. rassing time.

Off The Mark The Police should have soceed in the American championship, and I

Arsenal, also without leading

on several occasions, Gough's in-that he defeated conclusively Owen Hughes was again pro-players, have not gone farther

accurate shooting resulting in players who have or would have minent when the ex-Interporters back than the Rangers. Some of

ford opened for the Fast Lanes. Perry is first today because of Madras For Semi-Finals several lost opportunities. Sand-challenged Perry's Anpremacy. - batted, but the most refreshing their men revealed better form

There were 22 starters for the after 20 minutes play, but the his superlative stamina and - Bus- part of the afternoon's cricket was then previously this season. Cray- the good form shown by the ston was the complete half-back, Dewar Trophy of the Kowloon persistent efforts of the Police tained mobility; he also plays the veterans, G. B. Sayer and RL.D. and Davidson did much clever work Golf Club yesterday, but only four team were rewarded late in the ball quicker than any of his rivals. fellow-countrymen, auslified. They were J. D. second, half when Moss crashed These are cardinal virtues when Wodehouse, who made 51 and 45 against his respectively. Bayer Arst played while the runs of Bastin were full Thomson, S. Jer, H. Westlake and bome an unstoppable shot to level champions are rare, as they are

HC. Borne. for the Colony in November 1912, of menace.. while Wodehouse won his blazer in 1920, and they both still look good

for many more rakst

Turning back to the Interpor- D. W.

tera innings, only Capt.

Ferase made rang. Lt the Hon.

Clegg-He was not out for 15,

KOWLOON GOLF

Scarcity Of First Class

the scores.

The third senior game yesterday B2w the Nary make their debut against the Kowloon Chinese and (Continued on Page 3)

to-day.

A decade ago, whi Johnston, Lacoste, Bor Cochet wete iz doubt whether the grich virtues would ha

Hockey Players Arises MAJOR SENSATION IN MAMAK adequate for the com

"but Colledge, the wicket-keeper had London, September 21 There moved away. the misfortune to pick a anorter is a change of front in the hockey from. Fareira after he had stopped world

this mason. Instead of

a few really hot ones on the leg players" Sooking for clubs I find peg. The only other incident in that cinks are anxious to get play the match Lengthy: of note, was 3.ers, and are even prepared to:

bowled by a long:kép.

waite, but then-It

(Continuad}

He was novices:

HOCKEY ENCOUNTER

The opening match

the Mamak Promising. jumiors who might Hockey Tournament, betwees.

Into

C.BA-and the Argonaute

was festored by

MEL W Dove, the orders to giving marchit members of the latter for

bing with an

grounds

and strategy. many mistakes ander. be invulnerable.

(Continued on Page.

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UNIVERSITY ENTER BADMINTON LEAGUE

Round

Bombay, September 28.

It is understood that the Jam

of Nawanagar's cricket

tour of New Zealand has been cancelled Daleereinki would have Bombay, September 21 been a member of the touring aide.

In the all-India Rugby tournaOfficial confirmation is awaited. ment “ Madras beat South Wales.

A message from Christchurch

Borderers by 8 points to mil The ys that the New Zealand Cricket and try was scored by Breny in the Association

1 closing stages after extra time that

of It was a poor game and the Bor

derers were unlucky as they celled. dcentrated the exchanges Urighte

Беед

too through The winners meet RN W. CHUNG & A W. RAMSAY

to Eallway in the semi-final on Wed-

nesday.

SIN KOCH FINAL:

W. C. Hunz and A. W: Ramsay will meet in the Final of the Kow- loon Cricket Club mat

V REMEDIOS WINS - RECREIO TENNIS TTILE nis championship

In the Final of Club de Beczeń

The University of Hong Kong wing have entered a team in The Badawn

miston League, and cis a

Ellot Hall will not be competing on 3 med their own this forthcoming Best

Gonsalves by:

the former beating A E I yesterday

fred incher and

to Ram-